{"id":19521,"date":"2013-04-21T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=19521"},"modified":"2013-04-21T04:00:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T04:00:23","slug":"is-a-contented-heart-also-a-patient-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/21\/is-a-contented-heart-also-a-patient-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Is A Contented Heart Also A Patient  Heart ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"font-size:large;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19523\" alt=\"patience\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/patience.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/patience.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/patience-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"font-size:large;\"><strong>Saturday Author: <span style=\"color:#400000;\">\u00a0Barbara Bush, <\/span>Sent in by Rhonnie Scheuerman <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<span style=\"color:#ff0000;font-size:large;\"><strong>CONTENTED HEART, PATIENT\u00a0 HEART:<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#400000;font-size:large;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\">It is common\u00a0 to hear women bemoaning\u00a0 their lack of patience as if it were the most\u00a0 difficult gift to pry from God&#8217;s hand.\u00a0 In fact impatience stems almost\u00a0 solely from our exaggerated notions of what is due us.\u00a0 If we could but\u00a0 lower out estimation of the importance of our time, our plans and our feelings,,\u00a0 we would find ourselves almost automatically more\u00a0 patient.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div>.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.clipart.com\/thw\/thw11\/\/CL\/5344_2005010018\/000803_1063_62\/22093233.thb.jpg?000803_1063_6250_v__v\" width=\"350\" height=\"205\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">If we are impatient about the same things that anger\u00a0 God- repeated sin, inattention to his Word, social injustice- we cannot really\u00a0 be called impatient (as long as our opinions expressed in love).\u00a0 Neither\u00a0 can we expect a woman\u00a0to remain totally unperturbed if someone smashes into\u00a0 her new car.\u00a0 Certainly &#8220;learning patience&#8221; is not an acceptable reason for\u00a0 failure to discipline a rebellious child.\u00a0 Patience is not the same thing\u00a0 as resignation or the cynical attitude &#8220;that always expects the worst possible\u00a0 outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Patience is a more positive trait.\u00a0 It is the\u00a0 ability to bear affliction, delay and interruption with calmness, perseverance\u00a0 and confidence \u00a0in the goodness of God\u00a0 (Colossians\u00a01:11-12<\/span><span style=\"font-size:large;\">,. It is inward\u00a0 peace as well as outward control.\u00a0 It is the submission of our schedules,\u00a0 our viewpoints, our dreams to the greater plan of God, with the conviction that\u00a0 he has a good reason for every delay he allows to come our\u00a0 way<strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size:large;\">VERSE FOR THE DAY: 2 Corinthians\u00a0 1:6<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Author: \u00a0Barbara Bush, Sent in by Rhonnie Scheuerman . \u00a0CONTENTED HEART, PATIENT\u00a0 HEART:\u00a0It is common\u00a0 to hear women bemoaning\u00a0 their lack of patience as if it were the most\u00a0 difficult gift to pry from God&#8217;s hand.\u00a0 In fact impatience stems almost\u00a0 solely from our exaggerated notions of what is due us.\u00a0 If we could but\u00a0 lower out estimation of the importance of our time, our plans and our feelings,,\u00a0 we would find ourselves almost automatically more\u00a0 patient. . If we are impatient about the same things that anger\u00a0 God-<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/21\/is-a-contented-heart-also-a-patient-heart\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}